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Believe Your Ears - Life of a Lyric Composer
von Kirke Mechem
2016 Kartoniert, 224 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 13mm, Sprache(n): eng Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford cr…
From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli - Influence and Independence
von Alfred Kanwischer
2014 Gebunden, 240 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 19mm, Sprache(n): eng In From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli: Influence and Independence, music scholar and noted pianist Alfred Kanwischer takes readers on an extended exploration in which each of the thirty-three pieces making up Beethoven's…
Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio
von Xavier Jon Puslowski
2014 Gebunden, 204 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 17mm, Sprache(n): eng Many scholars, concert pianists, and classical music fans deem Franz Liszt the preeminent pianist of the nineteenth century. In Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio, Xavier Puslowski engages in a detailed study of the…
Feedback - The Who and Their Generation
von Casey Harison
2014 Gebunden, 230 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng In Feedback: The Who and Their Generation, historian Casey Harison offers a cultural and social history of one of the most successful bands of the 1960s British Invasion. In this historically sensitive account of the superband's im…
This Thing Called Music - Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl
2015 Gebunden, 536 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 36mm, Sprache(n): eng The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences…
Chopin's Prophet - The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann
von Gregor Benko, Edward Blickstein
2008 Kartoniert, 488 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 26mm, Sprache(n): eng Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history's most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin's works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements-be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience-wit…
Believe Your Ears - Life of a Lyric Composer
von Kirke Mechem
2015 Gebunden, 224 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford crea…
Experiencing David Bowie - A Listener's Companion
von Ian Chapman
2015 Gebunden, 254 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and en…
Sting and The Police - Walking in Their Footsteps
von Aaron J. West
2015 Gebunden, 204 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 17mm, Sprache(n): eng During the 1980s, when pop icons like Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, and U2 reigned supreme, many regarded The Police as the biggest band in the world. Yet after only five albums-and at the peak of their popularity-Th…
Experiencing Bessie Smith - A Listener's Companion
von John Clark
2017 Gebunden, 208 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 17mm, Sprache(n): eng Bessie Smith occupies a unique place in the history of American music. She was one of the first undisputed artists to come from the American vernacular tradition of the twentieth century, and as a woman, she was a figure of extraor…